Over the next two years the applicants will be whittled down to
a small number of teams (six to ten) each consisting of four
people.

A TV programme, with public voting, is central to the selection
process and, more importantly, to raise the money to fund the
vision.

The final teams will all undergo seven years of training for
their emigration to Mars, with a global TV show's public voting
deciding the first team to leave for the Red Planet.

Screening the 200,000+ applications is going to take some time,
though Mars One expects to have completed the screening by the end
of this year. This will require the organisation to screen nearly
3,000 applicants a day between September and December.

Candidates through to round three would be interviewed by the
Mars One selection committee. Round three also envisages public
voting through television. After interviews, twenty to forty
applicants from each region would appear in a TV show with a winner
being chosen from each region. Additional participants would be
selected by the Mars One panel to go through with the audience
selections to the final round.

Those through to round four will need to be conversational in
English, with the final selection process being billed as a global
TV show. The global TV audience would select the final six to ten
teams of four who would become full time employees of the Mars One
astronaut corps. The organisation cautions that some individuals or
teams could be de-selected during the seven years of training.

A global TV show would decide which of the final teams would be
the first Mars One crew.

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